(1) Purpose. A
flood recovery fund is established in the state treasury under the control of
the board. The fund shall consist of moneys appropriated to the fund by the
general assembly and any other moneys available to, obtained by, or accepted by
the board for deposit in the fund. Moneys in the fund are appropriated to the
department and shall be used for the purposes designated in this rule. Moneys
in the fund shall not supplant any federal disaster recovery moneys. Moneys in
the fund that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of a fiscal year
shall not revert to the general fund of the state but shall remain available
for expenditure for the purposes designated in this rule. Interest or earnings
on moneys deposited in the fund shall be credited to the fund.
(2) An eligible applicant is a political
subdivision of the state located in a county designated under presidential
disaster declaration DR-4421-IA and also located in a county where the federal
emergency management agency's individual assistance program has been
activated.
(3) Eligible projects
must support flood response, flood recovery, or flood mitigation activities.
Eligible project types could include construction and reconstruction of levees,
embankments, impounding reservoirs, conduits, or other means that are necessary
for the protection of property from the effects of floodwaters and may include
the deepening, widening, alteration, change, diversion, or other improvement of
watercourses if necessary for the protection of such property from the effects
of floodwaters. A project may consist of one or more phases of construction or
reconstruction that are contracted for separately if the larger project, of
which the project is a part, otherwise meets the requirements of this
subrule.
(4) Project applications
shall be submitted to the department for consideration by the board. The board
shall prescribe application instructions and forms. Applications, instructions,
programmatic guidance and forms are available through the department and its
website,
www.homelandsecurity.iowa.gov.
Project applications shall contain all of the following:
a. A description of the project and how it
supports flood response, flood recovery, or flood mitigation
activities.
b. A description of
financial assistance needed from the flood recovery fund.
c. A description of the necessary expense or
serious need of the political subdivision.
d. Details on any additional funds to be
applied to the project.
(5) The board shall review the project
applications. When reviewing a project application, the board shall consider,
at a minimum, all of the following:
a. Whether
the project supports flood response, flood recovery, or flood mitigation
activities.
b. Whether financial
assistance through the flood recovery fund is essential to meet the necessary
expenses or serious needs of the political subdivision related to flood
response, flood recovery, and flood mitigation.
Upon review of a project application, the board shall approve,
defer, or deny the project application. If a project application is approved,
the board shall specify the amount of financial assistance from the flood
recovery fund awarded to the political subdivision. If the board approves an
application for financial assistance from the flood recovery fund, the board
shall negotiate and execute on behalf of the department all necessary
agreements to provide such financial assistance. If a project application is
deferred or denied, the board shall state the reasons for such deferral or
denial.
(6)
Reports. Following the approval of a project application, the political
subdivision shall twice annually, until the project is complete, submit a
report to the board detailing the following:
a. The current status of the
project.
b. The total expenditures
and types of expenditures that have been made related to the project.
c. The amount of total project cost remaining
as of the date the report is submitted.
Notes
Iowa Code r.
605-14.12
ARC 4638C, IAB
8/28/19, effective 10/2/19
Amended by
IAB
June 19, 2019/Volume XLI, Number 26, effective
5/22/2019
Amended by
IAB
August 28, 2019/Volume XLII, Number 5, effective
10/2/2019
